ISSUE 23, NOVEMBER 2016 EGU NEWSLETTER Monthly information service for members of the European Geosciences Union Read this email in HTML format at https://www.egu.eu/newsletter/egu/23/email/ ============================================================ HIGHLIGHTS This month, the EGU has named the 47 recipients (https://egu.eu/9QFALZ) of next year’s Union Medals and Awards, Division Medals, and Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards. We have also opened the call for proposals for meetings co-sponsored by the EGU (https://egu.eu/9YEID6). If you'd like to organise a topical meeting, training school or workshop next year, please apply for funding by 31 December. In other EGU news, EGU members still have a few more days to vote in the EGU 2016 Autumn elections for treasurer and division presidents. You can see who the candidates are and how you can vote on the EGU website (https://egu.eu/62AYSK). Follow the links below for more news, including several updates and information regarding the EGU General Assembly. ------------------------------------------------------------ IN THIS ISSUE EGU News General Assembly Journal Watch EGU Blogs ------------------------------------------------------------ EGU NEWS * You have a few days left to vote for the next EGU treasurer and division presidents (https://egu.eu/62AYSK) * EGU announces 2017 awards and medals (https://egu.eu/9QFALZ) * EGU co-sponsored meetings: support request (https://egu.eu/9YEID6) (deadline 31 December) * Applications open for EGU Public Engagement Grants (https://egu.eu/6SYDAK) * Information about the central Italy earthquakes (https://egu.eu/9L45ET) * Press Release: Antarctic explorers help make discovery – 100 years after their epic adventures (https://egu.eu/5ESI34) More EGU news items are available on the EGU website at https://www.egu.eu/news/all/. ------------------------------------------------------------ GENERAL ASSEMBLY * EGU2017: Financial support to attend the General Assembly (https://egu.eu/2P7YX0) (apply by 1 December) * What’s new for the 2017 EGU General Assembly? (https://egu.eu/66UZ2O) * Organise a short course at EGU 2017 (https://egu.eu/1145YC) : follow this simple guide * Try something different – choose a PICO session at EGU 2017! (https://egu.eu/4YZIHW) * Showcase your film at GeoCinema at the 2017 General Assembly (https://egu.eu/58HOJ4) * EGU 2017 call for abstracts (https://egu.eu/8Y6R9E) (deadline 11 Jan, or 1 Dec if applying for funding) * Please note that two major events will be taking place in Vienna in parallel with the EGU 2017 General Assembly – we recommend booking your accommodation (https://egu.eu/7XNG2Y) as soon as possible More about the EGU General Assembly at https://www.egu2017.eu. ------------------------------------------------------------ JOURNAL WATCH Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) * Quantifying the loss of processed natural gas within California’s South Coast Air Basin using long-term measurements of ethane and methane (https://egu.eu/7QO742) * The BErkeley Atmospheric CO2 Observation Network: initial evaluation (https://egu.eu/6TVQF8) Biogeosciences (BG) * Effects of ocean acidification on pelagic carbon fluxes in a mesocosm experiment (https://egu.eu/06YMWF) Earth System Dynamics (ESD) * Towards improved and more routine Earth system model evaluation in CMIP (https://egu.eu/8BJQ64) Geoscientific Model Development (GMD) * Linking hydraulic traits to tropical forest function in a size-structured and trait-driven model (TFS v.1-Hydro) (https://egu.eu/4WFL9X) * Multi-annual modes in the 20th century temperature variability in reanalyses and CMIP5 models (https://egu.eu/8NV5PB) * Accounting for model error in air quality forecasts: an application of 4DEnVar to the assimilation of atmospheric composition using QG-Chem 1.0 (https://egu.eu/4AMBOT) The Cryosphere (TC) * Estimating the extent of Antarctic summer sea ice during the Heroic Age of Exploration (https://egu.eu/52RHFE) * Refinement of the ice absorption spectrum in the visible using radiance profile measurements in Antarctic snow (https://egu.eu/9AV2WI) * Brief communication: Impacts of a developing polynya off Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica, triggered by grounding of iceberg B09B (https://egu.eu/5GWERT) * Seasonal evolution of the effective thermal conductivity of the snow and the soil in high Arctic herb tundra at Bylot Island, Canada (https://egu.eu/2BCRAO) Other papers highlighted by the editors of EGU's open access journals are available online at https://www.egu.eu/news/journal-watch/. ------------------------------------------------------------ EGU BLOGS GeoLog, the official EGU blog * GeoPolicy: What will a Trump presidency mean for climate change? (https://egu.eu/4XUJK0) * Imaggeo on Mondays: Aoraki & a round-up of the latest New Zealand earthquake news (https://egu.eu/4A7CBY) * GeoTalk: Peter Lippert, understanding continental tectonics through palaeomagnetic studies (https://egu.eu/7Z1PGX) * GeoSciences Column: The ‘dirty weather’ diaries of Reverend Richard Davis (https://egu.eu/29X3YO) EGU network blogs * Flooding the Santorini Caldera (https://egu.eu/5PDC5Z), in VolcanicDegassing * Photo of the week: cathodoluminescence microphotograph of calcite cements (https://egu.eu/6LQJEF), in GeoSphere EGU division blogs * Publishing in Solid Earth: interview with Anna Rogowitz (https://egu.eu/0J4P36), in Tectonics and Structural Geology * Paper of the month – Signal apparition for wavefield separation (https://egu.eu/2Q5F2B), in Seismology * Ice-Hot News: The “Oldest Ice” quest has begun (https://egu.eu/649VQB), in Cryospheric Sciences * How to manage your EGU2017 session? Brief guidelines for fearless SSS conveners (https://egu.eu/0EV0YS), in Soil System Sciences * Numerically simulating production in geothermal reservoirs (https://egu.eu/5BAV2K), in Energy, Resources and the Environment * Black Carbon: the dark side of warming in the Arctic (https://egu.eu/2QB693) (joint AS and CR blog post), in Atmospheric Sciences * [ECS Interview] On the surface of Churyumov-Gerasimenko with Philae and Anthony (https://egu.eu/3G1L9Z), in Planetary and Solar System Sciences * Image of the Week – Inside a Patagonian Glacier (https://egu.eu/3LKTG0), in Cryospheric Sciences More posts from the EGU blogs are available at https://blogs.egu.eu/. ------------------------------------------------------------ POLICY Discover EGU's Science for Policy resources (https://www.egu.eu/policy/) & sign up to our database of expertise (https://egu.eu/2JN1DP) to help integrate science in the policy-making process ------------------------------------------------------------ MEETINGS Check the EGU Meetings Calendar for upcoming geoscience conferences: https://www.egu.eu/meetings/calendar/ ------------------------------------------------------------ JOBS Find vacancies in the Earth, planetary and space sciences on the EGU Jobs Portal: https://www.egu.eu/jobs ------------------------------------------------------------ EARLY CAREER SCIENTISTS Visit the EGU Early Career Scientists website! https://www.egu.eu/ecs ------------------------------------------------------------ FOLLOW US Web: https://www.egu.eu Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanGeosciencesUnion Twitter: https://twitter.com/EuroGeosciences LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/european-geosciences-union Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eurogeosciences/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/EuroGeosciencesUnion ------------------------------------------------------------ SHARE THIS NEWSLETTER On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//www.egu.eu/newsletter/egu/23/email/ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=News+from+the+EGU%2C%20November%202016%3A%20https%3A//www.egu.eu/newsletter/egu/23/email/ ============================================================ Copyright © 2016 European Geosciences Union. 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